Smoke Detection Ordinance

On July 9, 1991, the City of Eau Claire adopted an ordinance requiring "all new or existing apartment buildings, roominghouses, hotels, motels, dormitories, convents, monasteries, children's homes, homes for the aged and infirm, row houses, convalescent homes, jails, dwellings containing three or more rental units, and other places of abode or detention" to have electrically hardwired Smoke Detectors installed. Common or public area detectors must be interconnected, so the activation of one detector will cause activation of all detectors or other audible devices.